Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Running the gamut from a second hand clothing store to a gentleman's tailoring establishment in less than three years, the office at 2 Plympton holds the Square Record for a variety of tenants...
...tendency toward linearity" was the scientific way that Dr. Seltzer put it. Translated from statistics, this means that the trend of college students has been away form the stocky, muscular, boney build of the football player, narrow-hipped physique of the ideal Harvard gentleman...
...larger group, however, can gain lasting interest by a competent and sympathetic appraisal of a great personality. In this class belongs Mrs. Greenough's life of her husband, Chester Noyes Greenough--C.N.G. to the thousands of Harvard men who knew him as teacher, dean, house-master, and scholar-gentleman. So small was C.N.G.'s love of personal fame that, after ten years as dean in the expanding days of the Lowell administration, and five as first master of Dunster House, he could tell a friend that he had been "ten years a policeman and five years a hotel clerk...
...Conservative, uppity little Rhode Island went Democratic with a bang, tossed out young (38) Republican Governor William H. Vanderbilt, of "the" Vanderbilts, horseman and gentleman farmer. In by a mere 37,000 votes squeaked younger (36) James Howard McGrath, real-estate and insurance man, who was U. S. Attorney in Rhode Island for the last six years...
...years were $350,000,000. Fellow tradesmen put boom-year gross at $20,000,000. much less today. Present seneschal of Tiffany tradition is six-foot, grey-haired John Chandler Moore, whose grandfather was vice president under the first Tiffany. To friends, John Chandler is a kindly, dignified gentleman who wears high, stiff collars, tightly knotted ties. His weakness: he loves horses. To employes he is aloof, diamond-hard, almost a myth in an upstairs office. In best Tiffany style John Chandler does not tell Who's Who his age. Exact number of his employes is also secret...